FINAL DEBT (Indebted #6) by Pepper Winters-Review, Book Tour and Giveaway
FINAL DEBT
Indebted #6
by Pepper Winters
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Genre: adult, contemporary, dark, erotic romance
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date November 30, 2015
“I’m in love with her, but it might not be enough to stop her from becoming the latest victim of the Debt Inheritance. I know who I am now. I know what I must do. We will be together—I just hope it’s on Earth rather than in heaven.”
It all comes down to this.
Love versus life.
Debts versus death.
Who will win?
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REVIEW: FINAL DEBT is the sixth installment in Pepper Winters’s contemporary, adult INDEBTED dark, erotic, romantic suspense series focusing on a six hundred year old debt the Hawk family believes comes due with the first born Weaver daughter, and Nila Weaver is this generation’s payment. FINAL DEBT is the continuing story of Nila Weaver and Jethro Hawk as they struggle to break free of a dark and demonic cycle of torture and death. With each debt payment, a little more of Jet’s soul dies as he tries to free the woman with whom he has fallen in love. FINAL DEBT should not be read as a stand alone as too much information and backstory is revealed throughout the series.
Told from several first person points of view, as well as memories from the past, from beyond the grave, and the thoughts of a dying man FINAL DEBT is the darkest installment of the series and begins immediately after the events of FOURTH DEBT wherein Nila is once again held captive by the Hawk family, on her way, to meet her end. While Jet and his brother Kes struggle for their lives, the Hawk family take Nila half way across the world to teach her about the debt that she owes and the history of the Hawk Diamond mines.
FINAL DEBT and the INDEBTED series is a soul shattering experience; one that will leave the reader with pain, anger, heartbreak and fear that such a thing could happen in the modern world. Pepper Winters preys on your worst fears; the gut wrenching abuse, torture and panic that follows the threats and promises made by a mad man and his psychotic family. There is no freedom from the terror, the anticipation, and the suspense of the what-ifs and hows. At no point did I comprehend the deep seated vengeance and retaliation for something that happened so many years before, but the Hawk family had been born, bred and reared to understand the need for retribution and reprisal-it was ingrained into their DNA that wrath upon which each first born Weaver daughter would suffer.
Pepper Winters reveals the backstory; the history of the Weaver debt-six hundred years of hatred, retribution and malevolence passed from one generation to the next such that the Hawk men craved justice and punishment for the sins of long ago. The sick and twisted focus directed at the Weaver women is in direct contrast to Jet’s love for the woman he once considered nothing more than a means to an end. The unimaginable becomes real; the deviant nature of the act is callous and cold.
FINAL DEBT and the INDEBTED series is a controversial and arguably one of the darkest contemporary romance series I have read. The tension, suspense and intense storyline will destroy your soul then slowly begin to let it heal. In the end freedom comes at a cost; forgiveness brings with it a happily ever after; redemption is not an act of God but is administered by the blood of the first born child. I need something lighthearted to pick up the pieces of my anxious heart.
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Reviewed by Sandy
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INDEBTED EPILOGUE (Indebted #7) by Pepper Winters
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date November 30, 2015
INDEBTED EPILOGUE is a bonus book to be read after:
Debt Inheritance
First Debt
Second Debt
Third Debt
Fourth Debt
Final Debt
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INDEBTED EPILOGUE is a bonus novella in Pepper Winters’s dark, erotic romance series that focuses on the future. So as not to give away any spoilers, INDEBTED EPILOGUE looks forward-three months, six months, one year, three years, and five years in which the surviving members of the Hawk and Weaver family come to grips with the events of the past and a little hope for the future.
Reviewed by Sandy
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Cut’s voice physically hurt me as he forced me to my knees. The ballroom splendour mocked me as I bowed unwillingly at the feet of my executioner.
Velvet and hand-stitched crewel on the walls glittered like the diamonds the Hawks smuggled—a direct contrast to the roughly sawn wood and crude craftsmanship of the guillotine dais. No finesse. No pride. Just a raised podium, framework cushioning a large tarnished blade, and a rope dangling to the side.
“Don’t do this. Cut…think about what you’ve become. You can stop this.” My voice mimicked a beg but I’d vowed not to beg. I’d seen things, understood things, and suffered things I never thought I would be able to endure. I refused to cry or grovel. I wouldn’t give him that satisfaction.
“In five minutes, this will all be over, Weaver.” Cut bent to the side and collected a wicker basket.
The wicker basket.
I didn’t want to think about what its contents would be.
He placed it on the other side of the wooden block.
My lungs demanded more oxygen. My brain demanded more time. And my heart…it demanded more hope, more life, more love.
I’m not ready.
Not like this.
“Cut—”
“No. No more talking. Not after everything you’ve done.” Ripping a black hood from his pocket, he didn’t hesitate. No fanfare. No second guesses.
I cried out as the scratchy blackness engulfed my face, tightening by a cord around my throat.
The Weaver Wailer chilled me. The diamond collar that’d seen what I’d seen and whispered with phantoms of my slain family prepared to revoke its claim and detach from around my neck.
This was it.
The Final Debt.
Cut pushed my shoulders forward.
A heavy yoke settled over the top of my spine.
I closed my eyes.
I said goodbye.
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I waited to die.
Pepper Winters wears many roles. Some of them include writer, reader, sometimes wife. She loves dark, taboo stories that twist with your head. The more tortured the hero, the better, and she constantly thinks up ways to break and fix her characters. Oh, and sex… her books have sex.
She loves to travel and has an amazing, fabulous hubby who puts up with her love affair with her book boyfriends.
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Her Dark Erotica books include:
Tears of Tess (Monsters in the Dark #1)
Quintessentially Q (Monsters in the Dark #2)
Her Grey Romance books include:
Destroyed
Her Indebted Series include
Debt Inheritance
First Debt
Second Debt
Third Debt
Fourth Debt
Final Debt
Indebted Epilogue
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Great review Sandy.
Great review, Sandy. Wow. I felt that way after I read Acheron. Too much grief.
Magnificent review, Sandy. Not sure this would be for me. Sounds way too dark and emotional.
Great review Sandy, love this series as well. Hoping to read FINAL DEBT this weekend.
Got it…another one to read in the next week !!! Thanks for another fantastic review.
Wow, sounds very dark. Thanks for the review Sandy.
Thanks for another great review. I haven’t read this series…sounds a little too dark for me.